Some work has been made to analyze the performance of the UAV-based data collection system.
[1]} analyzes the influence of the distance between two UAVs on the system performance, but the UAV's mobility was not taken into consideration.
In [2]}, the location of UAV is updated periodically to obtain the optimized locations of UAV. However, it only involves the rotor crafts which could hover over the predetermined locations to collect the information.
[3]} gives a simple but extremely accurate model to calculate the throughput of CSMA/CA protocol using Markov chain model, and [4]} extends the multi-dimensional Markov chain model by considering the impacts of both non-ideal channel and capture effects.
Unfortunately, both of them can only be applied in terrestrial communication system with fixed base station.
